I'm embarassed to admit that I have just grokked how amazing Python coroutines and asyncio are. I want to rewrite every single piece of code with threads I have every written! But the learning curve is steep. This great blog opened my eyes: tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-be…

I really wanted to see the review details. It's clearly above the acceptance threshold of findings for me. When you fall into the cycle of rejection from ARR, it's hard to come out.

#overleafdown is up now!

Tracing Multilingual Factual Knowledge Acquisition in Pretraining. arxiv.org/abs/2505.14824

Consider submitting your multilingual NLP work to the MELT workshop @ COLM 2025: melt-workshop.github.io Deadline: June 23

🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop Conference on Language Modeling 2025 🌍 We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team! 🔗 Fill out the interest form: forms.gle/MYcXED7RLJDSqi… #MeltWorkshop2025

Are you working on multilingual, multicultural #LLM? Interested in diverse & inclusive language modeling? 😎 Stay tuned at our MELT workshop collocated with #COLM2025 🔗 melt-workshop.github.io 🫶 We welcome 2p (EA), 4p (short), 8p (long) papers as well as talented reviewers!

We have finally released the 📝paper for 🥂FineWeb2, our large multilingual pre-training dataset. Along with general (and exhaustive) multilingual work, we introduce a concept that can also improve English performance: deduplication-based upsampling, which we call rehydration.

FineWeb2 🥂 has been accepted to Conference on Language Modeling See you in October 🇨🇦

⏰ Reminder: Conference Track Deadline is July 25! Have a paper accepted to Conference on Language Modeling that aligns with linguistic & cultural inclusion in LLMs? Submit it to be featured at MELT 2025! 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=colmw… 📅 Deadline: July 25, 2025  #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

I'll be ACL 2025 in Vienna to present our recent agent papers SMART and CoALM! 🇦🇹🤖 #acl2025 Feel free to stop by our posters to exchange ideas and discuss agents together!

🥳 We are happy to share that CIS will be presenting 26 papers at #ACL2025! We've organized them by date, time, and location, with links to the papers included: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Free to stop by and check them out. we’d love to connect!

I'm at the ACL 2025 to present our papers on multilingual evaluation, programming languages, and translation! #ACL2025 Feel free to stop by to exchange ideas and discuss! I’m also on the job market. If you think there’s a potential fit, I’d love to hear from you.

Crazy how much attention OCR is getting. I couldn't find any that work well with less common scripts. Stress-test it with Cuneiform, at least it's part of Unicode!